Places helenensikat Wants to Go

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era “champions.”

Claiming to be the oldest hat store in the world, this historic haberdashery had a hand (and a head) in the creation of the Bowler.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

On this wooded path, a stained-glass window creates a spellbinding forest cathedral.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

North America's first Indigenous-owned winery is located within Canada's only desert-like ecosystem.

A lonely cemetery holds the history of a gold mining town turned ghost town.

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

Spectacular views await visitors to this lake.

This little theatre at the end of the Urban Gallery in the Manitoba Museum plays silent films from stars who performed in Winnipeg.

After Havre burned down, the best place to build was under the ashes.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

With a floor made of thick glass, this observation deck offers a full view of Sunwapta Valley's mountains and rivers.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

The natural hot spring that was integral to the creation of Canada's first national park.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.